Show A FEMALE ANTI MORMON DETECTIVE NEW A local paper says miss mias inez coultre who recently furnished the barge office officials with considerable consider ible information about the Mormon sand their mode life in utah left for salt lake city though the fac not made public miss coultre is returning to utah aa a a detective under instructions to secure such evidence as she can against the mormons cormons Mor mons the foregoing is a press dispatch which calls for some comment A person calling herself inez coultre has made herself somewhat conspicuous sp not to say intrusive during I 1 ng the landi flauding lauding ng of some mormon immigrants at new york so we learn from a bumler of papers published in that city this person claims to have been engaged as a school teacher in salt lake city for two years under the presbyterian mission she voluntarily appeared at the barge office when the vessel landed and professing great knowledge of imor mormon ways and methods attempted to prevent some of the newly arrived persons from proceeding any farther in this however she and those who aided her were entirely unsuccessful it appears that this woman wants to make something out of her pretended acquaintance with I 1 mormon bonyi affairs and so has obtained the appointment mentioned in the press dispatch which appears above that she is utterly ignorant of what she claims to understand will be seen sean from the following clipped from the columns of the new york press among other things miss coultier says that one of the chief arguments of the mormon elders to got get converts js s that the messiah is soon to appear in n the zion of the latter day saints and that all that are not there are lost incidentally a large amount of money is shown to the people whom the mormons cormons are trying to capture the gold catches the eye and they are ready to do almost anything to get it nothing to is said about polygamy the converts are told that they will have their own homes and husbands and everything they require the elders when abroad take care to select the best looking young women they can get when utah is reached sometimes the people are turned adrift by the elders for the sake of getting them more fully in their power the best beat looking of the women are then taken by rich old mormon elders and become sealed wives they are not taken to the house where the other wives are kept but are sent to neat little cottages or apologies for cottages hard by there they are little better off than many of the new york street walking women when the convert once gets within the clutches of the mormon church there is no chance of eaf escape abc many of the converts would do almost anything to get away but they are surrounded on all sideri and kept in bondage the old women who are not wanted as sealed wives 1 are put to work farmed out to plow and cared for about as well as the slaves were before the war the price ol 01 labor its is regu hed there by the bishop if they want a man to work for se venty five cents a day all the elder has to do is to say thai it is ordained in heaven that ne was to receive only seventy five cents and that goes the ranks of the church of the latter day saints are recruited mon monthly lh from the poorer classes of people of norway sweden and denmark there are very few of either english or irish the elder in making converts goes to a country district and announces that he be will hold a meeting on a certain oer date he further says says that he is appointed by god to save the people and lead them to the promised land ile he inspires the abe people with fear and then owns them the converts are taken to a river and baptized after that they are afraid to turn back he tells them that a great change has come over them and that they are of the family of the church of the latter day saints when they arrive at utah they are compelled to pay back the money that was expended fur passage and all other expenses 11 the new york telegram publishes some similar untruths un truths as coming coining from her lips says she was born in grove city pa and by means of dr dunn oi of the Epis episcopal eopal church gained access to the emigrants at castle garden the telegram adds instead of being given means of support by the church miss coultre baysin says in a communication to general OB eime the converts are obliged to support the church for every mormon must give one tenth of his possessions and earnings to the church I 1 handshe and she declares that when this ariu tribute to the church is made there is seldom enough left for decent subsistence among the working people while the elders live in luxury in any of the mormon settlements 11 L ays lays the young lady may be found families crowded into miserable adebie huts buts lacking nearly all the necessities of life and living on dried flab fish caught by themselves and dried over sagebrush fires if the poor convert Is lucky he may lay by enough dried fish for the winter under the conditions described by miss coultre the life of the ordinary couvert convert brought to salt lake city is worse than that of any tenement resident in new york city and not as good as the average life of a dog 11 why the mormon elders bring out so many young girls says miss coultre is only too well known to those of us who have oared cared to investigate the matter these girls have no voice in the neatter ni matter atter of their disposal ond and they soon learn that they r are to be sealed as spiritual wives to some of the basest creatures the church produces the young lady describes the horrible situation of the girls 19 brought to utah and the prayers of F f the poor creatures for that release which is impossible under mormon rule from this mess of rubbish it will be seen that whatever the coultre woman has learned from presbyterianism she has failed to comprehend or at any rate to put in practice those two divine 4 commandments thou alt not lie and thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor ff we never heard ot of inez coultre before we saw the name in the new york papers she may or caf may not have been in this city she may or may not have hoodwinked the emi gration officials enough to gain employment as a detective I but this is certain if she told the stuff reported in the press telegram and which appears in several other prominent gotham dailies no i information she furnishes will be worth a cent to her employers that is if they really want information she will fool them to the top of her bent she is ii evidently capable of drawing upon her imagination gi nation and feeding the popular mind with the sensational fiction which it craves this person however may be made quite useful by that class of sectarian preachers that delight in anti Mor mormon MOD stories however improbable and false among them she will be made welcome wel tome she will ff secure evidence no doubt but proofs none these are not necessary there is 18 not a scintilla of truth in the stories this person told to the representatives of the new york boik press and if they wanted facts instead of romances there are means by which they could have obtained them from reliable sources we pity the false creature who is selling herself to the father of lies for money and we pity the deceived or deceiving preachers and others who have employed her to do their dirty work |